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——260 SYNTAX.—CIRCUMSTANCES.—PRICE. § 133disto, &g. The accusative, under this rule, may be governed by ad or per,understood, and the ablative by a, or ab.576.— Obs. 3. When the measure of more things than one is expressed,the distributive numeral is commonly used; as, Muri sunt denos pedesalti, " The walls are each ten feet high." Sometimes dlnum pedum, fordenorum, is used in the genitive, governed by ad menswram, understood.But the genitive is used to express the measure of things in the plural only577.— Obs. 4. The distance of the place where any thing is said to bedone, is usually expressed in the ablative or in the accusative with a preposition;passwmn. C^es.578.as, 8 e x mi I lib us passuum ab urbe consedit ; or a d sex mil li aObs. 5. Sometimes the place from which distance is estimatedjs not expressed, though the preposition governing it is, and may be renderedoff, distant, &c, as, Ab sex millibus passuum abfuit; "He was sixmiles off, or distant" (scil. Romd, from Rome).579.Rule XLIII. The measure of excess ordeficiency, is put in the ablative ; as,Sesquipede longior,Taller by a foot and a half.Novem pedibus minor,Less by nine feet.Quant o doctior, tan to submis- The more learned, the more humble.si or,580.— Obs. 6. To this rule are to be referred the ablatives tan to, quanto,quo, eo, hoc, aliquanto, multo, paulo, mhilo,